Teamwork is essential to any successful organization but the Modern Workplace is driving new team structures. Companies investing in teamwork are including teamwork development along with leadership development.

1. Building Teams of Superheroes
Todd Attridge
Founder | Team Behaviour Specialist

2. Unpacking Teamwork

3. A story in three acts.
1.How to assemble teams,
2.How to sustain teamwork and,
3.How to develop teams and teamwork.

4. Traditional Workplace
Hierarchal Team Structure

5. Modern Workplace
Matrix Team Structure

6. Key success factors
Collaboration
Critical Thinking

7. By the numbers.

8. The ‘new’ individual contributor.

9. Assembling Teams

10. Why Superheroes?
Everyone
has the
potential to
save the
day!

11. What’s a Superpower?
SKILL – the things we know how to do.
STYLE – the way we act and react.
EXPERIENCE – applying our skills and styles.

12. A change in approach.
Traditional Workplace Modern Workplace

13. Actionables
Assembling Teams
1. Everyone’s a Superhero with Superpowers –
focus on people’s strengths and encourage
them to play into them and
2. Aces in their Places – assign people, not
projects

14. A successful merger.

15. Sustaining Teamwork
EVALUATION

16. Evaluate superpowers.
Employees
spend up to
41% of their
time on their
“opportunities”
with 5%
success rate.

17. Evaluate superpowers.
Nice work,
but…

18. Evaluate superpowers.

19. Evaluate team results + process.
• clearly defining a successful outcome
• clearly assigning roles and responsibilities
• clearly defining norms and customs
• engaging in healthy debate
• leveraging each person’s strengths

20. Sustaining Teamwork
REWARD

21. Actionables
Sustaining Teams
1. Re-evaluate Evaluations – emphasize team
success: results + process
2. Win Together / Lose Together – reward teams first
and MVPs second

22. Developing Teams + Teamwork

23. Emerging skills and styles
Areas of Development:
• identifying their strengths and how to use them,
• identifying other people’s strengths and how to make room
for them,
• how to distribute roles and responsibilities,
• inter-personal relationship skills such as trust, resiliency and
authenticity and,
• process skills such as healthy debate, team decision making,
team problem solving, strategic planning and time
management

24. Actionables
1. Teach teams to be teams – include “how to be a great team
player” as part of your curriculum

25. Actionables
1. Everyone’s a Superhero with Superpowers – focus on
people’s strengths and encourage them to play into them and
2. Aces in their Places – assign people, not projects
3. Re-evaluate Evaluations – emphasize team success: results +
process
4. Win Together / Lose Together – reward teams first and MVPs
second
5. Teach teams to be teams – include “how to be a great team
player” as part of your curriculum

26. Building Teams of Superheroes
todd@differentmatters.com
Todd Attridge
Founder | Team Behaviour Specialist
differentmatters.com